Makeshift operating rooms

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Medicins du Monde surgeons work on a patient in a makeshift operating theatre January 18, 2010 at the general hospital in Port-au-Prince. Aid agencies said a huge international relief operation nearly a week after Haiti's devastating earthquake was gaining pace on Monday, but one warned that survivors were growing increasingly desperate.

Medicins du Monde surgeons work on a patient in a makeshift operating theatre January 18, 2010 at the general hospital in Port-au-Prince. Aid agencies said a huge international relief operation nearly a week after Haiti's devastating earthquake was gaining pace on Monday, but one warned that survivors were growing increasingly desperate.